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  • Rabbi Gavriel Cohen Has A License To Print Money


    Your Moral Leader — Authority Authority: 146
    Rabbi Gavriel Cohen set up his Beit Din of Beverly Hills in 1983 with the approval of Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi. He has the support of such Sephardic rabbis as the current Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and the Sephardic gadol Ovadiah Yosef. Rabbi Cohen’s conversions are accepted everywhere in the Jewish world. ...
    3 days ago

  • How The RCA Gave Away The Game To R. Shlomo Amar


    Your Moral Leader — Authority Authority: 146
    Israel’s chief rabbis have traditionally divided up their duties — one would handle Beit Din (Jewish law court handling conversions, divorces, business disputes etc) stuff and the other would handle everything else including kashrut (Jewish dietary laws). Then, every five years, they’d switch roles. As the ...
    4 days ago

  • Selfish Europe is “dying” claims Chief Rabbi


    Interfaith — Authority Authority: 127
    Europe is a “dying” continent whose people are too selfish to have children, the Chief Rabbi claimed this week. Lord Sacks said Europe’s secularism and its culture of “consumerism and instant gratification” were to blame for the continent’s declining population. Europe is the most secular region in the ...
    1 week ago

  • Yisroel Pensack: Britain’s Top Court Grapples with “Who Is A Jew?” and “Who Decides?”


    Your Moral Leader — Authority Authority: 146
    The New York Times reports :  On the surface, the court was considering a straightforward challenge to the admissions policy of a Jewish high school in London. But the case, in which arguments concluded Oct. 30, has potential repercussions for thousands of other parochial schools across Britain. And in ...
    1 week ago

  • The Jew In The Clown


    It Is What It Is — Authority Authority: 128
    Good news Christians - Im going to have a go at the Jews for once! Well, a Jew. Its near enough, innit? The Chief Rabbi (I assume hes a Jew, if hes not, well, he must have done well at the interview, eh?) Lord Sacks has said that Europe is having a population crisis! Yes, not enough kids! And you all ...
    1 week ago

  • Is the Chief Rabbi worried about Muslim immigrants?


    Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority Authority: 794
    I was unable to make the speech given by Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, at Theos, the religion think tank, on Wednesday evening. But I hope he wasn’t making a thinly-veiled attack on European Muslim immigrants, when he said that Europeans are more interested in material things than having children.Our report has him ...
    1 week ago

  • Jewish School Refuses To Admit Boy On Religious Grounds


    Your Moral Leader — Authority Authority: 146
    From The Guardian : Britain’s most successful Jewish school told the supreme court today it had discriminated against a 12-year-old boy on religious rather than racial grounds. Lord Pannick QC, representing the JFS, told nine judges and a standing-room-only crowd that the school denied the boy a place because the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Destruction of the Jewish faith, my arse


    Wonko's World — Authority Authority: 129
    A court has ruled that a school has broken the law by refusing admission to a child that the Chief Rabbi considered  to not be a proper jew. Interestingly, the judgement is based on the assertion that “Jewish” is a race, not just a religion.  Which is bollocks.  The rules are that anyone with a Jewish mother ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Everybody Loves Kalman


    Your Moral Leader — Authority Authority: 146
    Kalman Topp is the new chief rabbi at the Orthodox synagogue Beth Jacob in Beverly Hills. With 750 member families, it’s quite a difficult shul to run. There are a lot of difficult people there. Steven Weil , the previous rabbi, ran it well. He ran it his way. He made alliances and he got things done, sometimes ...
    3 weeks ago

  • The Love Rabbi


    Your Moral Leader — Authority Authority: 146
    Dan Adler writes in the Jewish Journal : I met Rabbi Yitzhak Dovid Grossman three weeks ago in a beautiful apartment across from the Western Wall. We stood at the window and looked out at some 5,000 kids preparing to say the penitential Selichot service. He turned and spoke his first words to me: “Is that not the ...
    4 weeks ago

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